At first I thought the headline had a typo and that they meant to name Equifax, but they do, indeed, mean Experian. This suit goes back to an incident previously covered on this site that involved Experian acquiring a company, Court Ventures, that had access to another company’s, InfoSearch’s database…. and a bad actor named…
Category: ID Theft
Former nursing home employee admits stealing residents’ credit card numbers
Sam Clancy reports: A 29-year-old woman who worked for a St. Louis County nursing home pleaded guilty to stealing credit card numbers from the home’s residents. Shaniece Borney pleaded guilty to a credit card fraud scheme while she worked at NHC Health Care in 2016 and 2017, a press release from the Department of Justice…
MO: Olathe restaurant owner accused of identity theft
KSHB in Kansas City reports: An Olathe barbecue restaurant owner is facing accusations of credit card fraud. Mathew Sander is facing 19 different charges in three separate cases. Sander owns Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. Read more on KSHB.
Criminal Network Supplying Identity and Travel Documents Dismantled in Greece – Europol
On 25 February the Organised Crime Unit of the Hellenic Police arrested 11 members of an international organised crime group involved in stealing and falsifying travel documents to facilitate for profit the movement of illegal third-country nationals through Europe. During the course of this Europol-supported investigation, police officers identified members of the criminal organisation and…
Russian computer hackers in Colorado sold stolen credit card numbers for $3.6 million
Kirk Mitchell reports: Russian computer hackers operating in Colorado and 15 other states used data-mining viruses to steal thousands of credit card numbers from U.S. residents in 20 states and sold them on the darknet for more than $3.6 million, according to federal court documents. As part of the wide-scale criminal operation, so-called “carders” from…
Half A Million People Don’t Know Criminals Stole Their Identities to Get Jobs
Jack Corrigan reports: A programming error kept the IRS from notifying hundreds of thousands of identity theft victims about criminals using their Social Security numbers to get themselves jobs in 2017, according to an internal investigation. Last year, more than half a million Americans had their identities used by others to get hired, but only…